It had always been so since the days of the American revolution and now was accentuated by the American war.

This was the question of the future of democracy.

Was its fate bound up with the result of that war?
And if so where lay British interest?
Always present in the minds of thoughtful Englishmen, appearing again and again through each changing phase of the war, this question was so much a constant that to have attempted discussion of it while other topics were being treated, would have resulted in repetition and confusion.

It is therefore made the subject of a separate and concluding chapter.
FOOTNOTES: [Footnote 1261: Bright to Sumner, Jan.

26, 1865 (Mass.Hist.